88 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS ' 1922 



Luzon (Laguna, Rizal), Mindoro, Mindanao (Cotabato), Merrill 5104., 

 Phil. PL 183, Kneucker Gram. Exsic. 554a, Elmer 18131, Williams 2027. 

 In swampy often brackish places at low alitudes. Tropical Asia and 

 Africa to Australia'. 



63. ERAGROSTIS Beauvois 



ERAGROSTIS AMABILIS (Linn.) W. & A. in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechy 



Voy. (1841) 251; Merr. Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 95. 

 Poa amabilis Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 68. 

 Poa tenella Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 69. 

 Poa plumosa Link. Hort. Berol. 1 (1827) 192; Nees in Hook. Journ. 



Bot. Kew Miscel. 2 (1850) 102 (f. laxa) ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 



(1857) 394; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 322; Vidal Phan. Cuming. 



Philip. (1885) 159, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 293; Usteri Beitr. 



Ken. Philip. Veg. (1905) 132 (f. breviciliata Hack.). 

 Eragrostis tenella R. & S. Syst. 2 (1817) 576; Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 



(1830) 274; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 322; Merr. in Philip. 



Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 383, 3 (1908) Bot. 397, Fl. Manila 



(1912) 101. 



In and about towns throughout the Philippines, a very common weed in 

 open waste places. Old World Tropics generally. 



Local names: Bagibuk (Tag.); balisibis (Iv.) ; kaliraurau (Tag.); 

 pagai-billit (Ilk.); pulpulut (Bon.); sigsigid (Bon.). 



ERAGROSTIS CILIANENSIS (All.) Vig.-Lut. in Malpighia 18 (1904) 

 386; Hubbard in Philip. Journ. Sci. 8 (1913) Bot. 159. 

 Briza eragrostis Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 70. 

 Poa cilianensis All. Fl. Pedem. 2 (1785) 246, t. 91, /. 2. 

 Eragrostis major Host. Gram. Austr. 4 (1809) 14, t. 24. 

 Eragrostis megastachya Link Hort. Berol. 1 (1827) 187; Nees in 

 Hook. Journ. Bot. Kew Miscel. 2 (1850) 102; Vidal Phan. Cuming. 

 Philip. (1885) 159, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 293. 

 Cebu, Negros, B. S. 11122 Ramos, Eskridge. In open waste places at 

 low altitudes. All warm countries. 



ERAGROSTIS DISTANS Hack, in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1906) 

 81; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 384, 5 (1910) 

 Bot. 330, Fl. Manila (1912) 102, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 74. 

 XJyiiola paniculata Llanos Frag. PI. Filip. (1851) 32; F.-Vill. & Naves 



in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4 1 (1880) 23, noh Linn. 

 Eragrostis pilosa F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1882) 322, non Beauv. 

 Luzon (Ilocos Norte, Lepanto, Benguet, Pangasinan, Rizal), Palawan, 

 Elmer 6608, Kneucker Gram. Exsic. 761, Merrill 4472, B. S. 4821, 5314 

 Ramos. In dry open grasslands at low and medium altitudes. Endemic. 



ERAGROSTIS ELONGATA (Willd.) Jacq. Eclog. Gram. (1818) 3, t. 3; 

 Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 275; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 

 (1906) Suppl. 384. 

 Poa elongata Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 1 (1809) 108. 

 Eragrostis elegantula Pilger in Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 148; 

 Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 384, Fl. JVIanila (1912) 

 102, non Steud. 



